Fariborz Zelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1570367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fariborz Zelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fariborz |
| FAMILY NAME | Zelli |
| SIGNATURE | ZELLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-4303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 282 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Groundhog Day at the 2024 United Nations biodiversity conference: What COP 16 can teach us for reforming environmental summits
With 23,000 registered participants and unprecedented media attention, the 16th conference of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia, was the largest in the 32-year history of these biannual meetings. In terms of successes, the Cali conference established a new subsidiary body to protect concerns of indigenous communities and local populations as defenders of nature, along with a new vol…
The nature of peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
This editorial introduces the special feature’s main objective: to provide latest research findings on the dynamics between environmental protection and post-conflict peacebuilding processes after internal armed conflicts. In the feature, we propose a broad understanding of environmental peacebuilding that takes all cycles of the peacebuilding process into account and puts stronger emphasis on the long-term social and environmental impacts. Based…
Colombia's long road toward peace: Implications for Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders, social leaders, and environmental and indigenous activists fight for political, cultural, social, economic, and environmental rights and often face intimidation and violence as a consequence. In this article, we analyze how the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016 between the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP guerrilla group affects environment and human rights defenders (EHRD) in Colombia. Despite the…
The nature of peace: Trajectories of Environmental Peacebuilding Between Dominant Narratives and Power Relations
Peacebuilding initiatives play an important role in the reconstruction of political, economic, and social conditions after internal armed conflicts. If these initiatives also account for environmental aspects, they have the potential to address both ecological damages and resource-related conflict causes. The sprawling literature on environmental peacebuilding therefore stresses the need for a holistic perspective to study conditions for sustaina…
Diverse understandings and values of nature at the peace-environment nexus: A Critical Analysis and Policy Implications Towards Decolonial Peace
Scholarship in peace and conflict studies is paying increasing attention to the role of the environment for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. However, a closer analysis on how different understandings of “nature” implicate policy proposals and approaches to peacebuilding is lacking. In this study, we provide a critical reflection on the diverse understandings and valuations of nature at the nexus of peace and environment. We do this from…
What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria
While deforestation and forest degradation have gained attention in recent years not least at the UN climate negotiations, a third “de”, i.e., defaunation, has to a great extent been overlooked. Human-induced faunal loss does not only reduce tree species diversity, but also significantly erodes key ecosystem services and functions and further disadvantages local communities. In this article, we analyze these impacts, and the associated multi-leve…
Seeing the forest for the trees: Identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex Redd+ governance
Zelli, F., T. Nielsen, and W. Dubber. 2019. Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance. Ecology and Society 24(1):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10632-240110
Institutional complexity and private authority in global climate governance: The cases of climate engineering, Redd+ and short-lived climate pollutants
How and why do institutional architectures, and the roles of private institutions therein, differ across separate areas of climate governance? Here, institutional complexity is explained in terms of the problem-structural characteristics of an issue area and the associated demand for, and supply of, private authority. These characteristics can help explain the degree of centrality of intergovernmental institutions, as well as the distribution of …
Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
This article introduces a special issue on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation. The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A con…
Institutional Interactions at the Crossroads of Trade and Environment: The Dominance of Liberal Environmentalism
This article argues that institutional interactions that cut across the domains of trade and environment are embedded in overarching norms that shape their evolution and impact. In making this argument, it analyzes three cases of such interactions within the climate change and biosafety regime complexes: those relating to trade-related climate policies and measures, forest carbon sinks, and trade in genetically modified organisms. The analysis hi…
The fragmentation of the global climate governance architecture
The term fragmentation implies that policy domains are marked by a patchwork of public and private institutions that differ in their character, constituencies, spatial scope, subject matter, and objectives. While the degree of fragmentation varies across issue areas and their respective architectures, global climate politics is characterized by an advanced state of institutional diversity. In recent years, scholars have increasingly addressed thi…
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis
Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a giv…
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis
Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a giv…
Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
This article introduces a special issue on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation. The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A con…
The fragmentation of the global climate governance architecture
The term fragmentation implies that policy domains are marked by a patchwork of public and private institutions that differ in their character, constituencies, spatial scope, subject matter, and objectives. While the degree of fragmentation varies across issue areas and their respective architectures, global climate politics is characterized by an advanced state of institutional diversity. In recent years, scholars have increasingly addressed thi…
Institutional complexity and private authority in global climate governance: The cases of climate engineering, Redd+ and short-lived climate pollutants
How and why do institutional architectures, and the roles of private institutions therein, differ across separate areas of climate governance? Here, institutional complexity is explained in terms of the problem-structural characteristics of an issue area and the associated demand for, and supply of, private authority. These characteristics can help explain the degree of centrality of intergovernmental institutions, as well as the distribution of …
Institutional Interactions at the Crossroads of Trade and Environment: The Dominance of Liberal Environmentalism
This article argues that institutional interactions that cut across the domains of trade and environment are embedded in overarching norms that shape their evolution and impact. In making this argument, it analyzes three cases of such interactions within the climate change and biosafety regime complexes: those relating to trade-related climate policies and measures, forest carbon sinks, and trade in genetically modified organisms. The analysis hi…
Seeing the forest for the trees: Identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex Redd+ governance
Zelli, F., T. Nielsen, and W. Dubber. 2019. Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance. Ecology and Society 24(1):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10632-240110
Groundhog Day at the 2024 United Nations biodiversity conference: What COP 16 can teach us for reforming environmental summits
With 23,000 registered participants and unprecedented media attention, the 16th conference of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia, was the largest in the 32-year history of these biannual meetings. In terms of successes, the Cali conference established a new subsidiary body to protect concerns of indigenous communities and local populations as defenders of nature, along with a new vol…
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis
Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a giv…
The fragmentation of the global climate governance architecture
The term fragmentation implies that policy domains are marked by a patchwork of public and private institutions that differ in their character, constituencies, spatial scope, subject matter, and objectives. While the degree of fragmentation varies across issue areas and their respective architectures, global climate politics is characterized by an advanced state of institutional diversity. In recent years, scholars have increasingly addressed thi…
Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
This article introduces a special issue on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation. The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A con…
Institutional Interactions at the Crossroads of Trade and Environment: The Dominance of Liberal Environmentalism
This article argues that institutional interactions that cut across the domains of trade and environment are embedded in overarching norms that shape their evolution and impact. In making this argument, it analyzes three cases of such interactions within the climate change and biosafety regime complexes: those relating to trade-related climate policies and measures, forest carbon sinks, and trade in genetically modified organisms. The analysis hi…
Institutional complexity and private authority in global climate governance: The cases of climate engineering, Redd+ and short-lived climate pollutants
How and why do institutional architectures, and the roles of private institutions therein, differ across separate areas of climate governance? Here, institutional complexity is explained in terms of the problem-structural characteristics of an issue area and the associated demand for, and supply of, private authority. These characteristics can help explain the degree of centrality of intergovernmental institutions, as well as the distribution of …
What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria
While deforestation and forest degradation have gained attention in recent years not least at the UN climate negotiations, a third “de”, i.e., defaunation, has to a great extent been overlooked. Human-induced faunal loss does not only reduce tree species diversity, but also significantly erodes key ecosystem services and functions and further disadvantages local communities. In this article, we analyze these impacts, and the associated multi-leve…
Seeing the forest for the trees: Identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex Redd+ governance
Zelli, F., T. Nielsen, and W. Dubber. 2019. Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance. Ecology and Society 24(1):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10632-240110
Diverse understandings and values of nature at the peace-environment nexus: A Critical Analysis and Policy Implications Towards Decolonial Peace
Scholarship in peace and conflict studies is paying increasing attention to the role of the environment for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. However, a closer analysis on how different understandings of “nature” implicate policy proposals and approaches to peacebuilding is lacking. In this study, we provide a critical reflection on the diverse understandings and valuations of nature at the nexus of peace and environment. We do this from…
Groundhog Day at the 2024 United Nations biodiversity conference: What COP 16 can teach us for reforming environmental summits
With 23,000 registered participants and unprecedented media attention, the 16th conference of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia, was the largest in the 32-year history of these biannual meetings. In terms of successes, the Cali conference established a new subsidiary body to protect concerns of indigenous communities and local populations as defenders of nature, along with a new vol…
The nature of peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods
This editorial introduces the special feature’s main objective: to provide latest research findings on the dynamics between environmental protection and post-conflict peacebuilding processes after internal armed conflicts. In the feature, we propose a broad understanding of environmental peacebuilding that takes all cycles of the peacebuilding process into account and puts stronger emphasis on the long-term social and environmental impacts. Based…
Colombia's long road toward peace: Implications for Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders, social leaders, and environmental and indigenous activists fight for political, cultural, social, economic, and environmental rights and often face intimidation and violence as a consequence. In this article, we analyze how the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016 between the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP guerrilla group affects environment and human rights defenders (EHRD) in Colombia. Despite the…
The nature of peace: Trajectories of Environmental Peacebuilding Between Dominant Narratives and Power Relations
Peacebuilding initiatives play an important role in the reconstruction of political, economic, and social conditions after internal armed conflicts. If these initiatives also account for environmental aspects, they have the potential to address both ecological damages and resource-related conflict causes. The sprawling literature on environmental peacebuilding therefore stresses the need for a holistic perspective to study conditions for sustaina…
Political science (9 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works)